Database management

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 3

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 06:00 am for us…It’s in our time offset, this time better to wake up! 😉 My schedule for the day: D3B1 – KATMAI – SQL MI on Kubernetes – Intermediate – Dhananjay(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 2

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 03:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but better than yesterday. My schedule for the day: D2B1 – HYDRA – Overview of SQL Server 2022 – Intermediate – Bob Ward(…)

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2022 –  Day 1

Today the Data Platform Virtual Summit begin at 00:30 am for us… It’s a little bit early but when we like our work and like to learn, we stay up with plaisir. My schedule for the day: After the login,(…)

SQL Server 2022 – Azure Synapse Link

Why is this feature interesting? The Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 will enable you to replicate your operational data into Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. Azure Synapse is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight(…)

Patch ODA X8 : 19.9 to 19.11

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog, I describe the patching of an ODA X8 from 19.9 to 19.11. We use following patches p32790643_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance Server Patch for ODACLI/DCS Stackp30403673_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance GI Clone for(…)

SQL Server 2022 security: Do you know Ledger?

You probably hear or view that on the security point of view, the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2022, has a feature named Ledger. It’s already used in Azure but what is Ledger? In 2 points, I will(…)

Configure Oracle DB for using Large Pages on AIX

When it comes to deploying a new Oracle infrastructure, 90% of it is implemented on Linux. This makes sense, because Oracle runs very stable and performant on Linux and it is also Oracle’s own development platform. But since variety makes(…)

PostgreSQL Cluster using repmgr

With this blog I describe the installation of a PostgreSQL Cluster using repmgr instead of Patroni. Repmgr was originally developed by 2ndQuadrant which is now part of EDB and EDB decided for the 2ndQuadrant tools for the future, barman as(…)

A few words about the good to know MAX_IDLE_BLOCKER_TIME

The increasing popularity of tools like SQL Developer and Toad, sometimes comes hand in hand with an increase of stuck sessions.This is especially seen in cases where: User A does a change (neither committed nor rolled back). Then, switches to(…)

Configure Data Guard between 2 DB Systems with Oracle 21c

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this previous blog, I have configured 2 DB systems with Oracle 21c in an ODA 19.14. Now let’s continue and show how we can configure a Data Guard between these 2 servers.